Analytical chemistry – Page 54
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OpinionAutomatic for the chemist
How automatic structure elucidation could lead to more creative chemists
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FeatureMagical mass spec
The increasing sophistication of detection techniques means mass spectrometry can now escape the laboratory. Emma Davies sets sail to new horizons
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NewsArafat exhumed in poisoning probe
An international team of scientists are taking samples from the former Palestinian leader’s body to try to discover what killed him
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NewsChemistry goes into the field to battle metal theft
New DNA and metal nanoparticle technologies are helping to catch thieves that target railways, telecommunications and churches
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FeatureStationary phases move ahead
What’s in those columns? Jon Evans looks at the increasingly sophisticated materials being used to separate compounds in chromatography
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FeatureA signal honour
The 2012 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors. Phillip Broadwith looks at the molecular machinery underpinning cell signalling
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ResearchDrawing gas sensors with a nanotube pencil
Simple way to make paper-based gas sensors could be used to detect almost any gas or disease biomarkers
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US crime lab chemist arrest causes reverberations
Massachusetts state chemist’s arrest for allegedly falsifying evidence in drug cases casts doubt on thousands of convictions
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NewsForensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice
Man held on rape charge for five months after contamination of DNA samples
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NewsRussian chemist released after drug charge
Expert on poppy opioid chemistry faces drug trafficking charges that supporters claim are politically motivated
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NewsUK university lab shut after student poisoning
Police and safety body investigate as University of Southampton PhD student exposed to thallium and arsenic falls ill
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NewsChinese drug makers accused of using ‘gutter oil’
Oil reclaimed from drains may have been used to make an antibiotic intermediate
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Recovering chemical weapons
As stockpiles of chemical weapons are destroyed, the US looks to detecting and destroying buried munitions
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FeatureBig troubles over tiny bubbles
Conventional wisdom suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all, so their stability for hours or days has surprised many. Philip Ball takes a close look at these minute miracles
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OpinionBlack crystal arts
The secret tricks needed to coax out crystals hark back to our alchemical past